Healing through Death

As each patient is playing a character that they need to embody in order to achieve a transformation, what does each patient whose character dies (Polonius, Ophelia, Gertrude, Claudius, and Hamlet) gain from their character’s death?  How does their death change them?

These questions reminded me of a scene from the 1995 movie Empire Records…

Mark Rylance on Hamlet’s Death

So, it’s pretty clear that Death is a topic of inquiry in Hamlet.  Take a listen to Mark Rylance discuss Hamlet’s dying moment and the textual differences between quartos and folios in Radiolab’s episode 14: The Four Groans.

https://www.wnyc.org/widgets/ondemand_player/radiolab/#file=%2Faudio%2Fxspf%2F91916%2F